Signing in, and marking my place. I'm on Book 48 currently - Pear Shaped by Stella Newman. Some light-hearted chick-lit and surprisingly good so far. I shall be tackling We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver soon, which will probably be Book 50/51.

I lurked on the last thread. Think I am on about 25 (reading list for this year is upstairs!). Re-reading Pride and Prejudice atm. Helped to stay on track by reading the Song of Ice and Fire series which I could not put down and devoured during April/May.

I have some work reading to do this summer (English teacher) so will be re-reading Disgrace by Coetzee, Doll's House by Ibsen and Wilfred Owen's poetry.

I'm on book 23, so almost on track for 50 this year. I'm really pleased as I didn't think I'd get anywhere near 50 when I started this! I used to read a lot pre-DC, but have been reading much less in recent years.

I'm going to mark my place on the new thread by listing my books so far so I have a record of them:

1. The Day You Saved My Life by Louise Candlish2. The 100 Year Old Man... by Jonas Jonasson3. The Girl with the Glass Feet by Ali Shaw4. The Child Who by Simon Lelic5. A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving6. The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantyne7. Separate Lives by Kathryn Flett8. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce9. Pear Shaped by Stella Newman10. How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran11. Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway12. A Year of Doing Good by Judith O'Reilly13. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn14. The Jigsaw Man by Paul Britton15. What Matters in Jane Austen16. Battle Hymn of a Tiger Mother by Amy Chua17. Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes18. The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler19. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier20. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood21. You Had Me At Hello by Mhairi McFarlane22. How To Be A Good Wife by Emma Chapman

1. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott2. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey3. The Auschwitz Violin by Maria Angels Anglada4. Life of Pi by Yann Martel5. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs6. Lord of the Flies by William Golding7. The Unliekly Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce8. Matilda by Roald Dahl9. The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn by Robin Maxwell10. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin11. Thursday's in the Park by Hilary Boyd12. George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl13. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou14. French Children Don't Throw Food by Pamela Druckerman15. Atonement by Ian McEwan16. About a Boy by Nick Hornby17. Women, Work & the Art of Savoir Faire: Business Sense & Sensibility by Mireille Guiliano18. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters19. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

1. So Long and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams2.The End of the Affair by Graham Greene3.Angels by Marian Keyes4.What I Talk about when I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami5.There is No Dog by Meg Rosoff6.The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carre7.The Etymologicon by Mark Forsyth8.The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison9.The Glimpse by Clair Merle10.The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway11.Austerity Housekeeping by Sandra Bradley12.The Host by Stephenie Meyer13.A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness14.Labyrinth by Kate Mosse15.A Games of Thrones by George R R Martin16.A Clash of Kings by GRRM17.A Storm of Swords Part 1 by GRRM18.A Storm of Swords Part 2 by GRRM19.A Feast for Crows by GRRM20.Dance with Dragons Part 1 by GRRM21.Dance With Dragons by GRRM22.Inferno by Dan Brown23.Whose Life is it Anyway? By Brian Clark24.Animal Farm by George Orwell

Oops! Not quite 25 and quite a few re-reads and books I had to read at school with my classes (and also a lot of teen fiction). Should be finished with P&P soon and have been slogging my way through a book on translation for the last few months but keep falling asleep when reading before bed as its not exactly edge-of-your seat stuff .

Apart from school reading to do over the holidays have quite a lot lined up on kindle or from Christmas  Our Man in Havana, Mrs Dalloway, Gone Girl, Tinker, Sailor, Soldier, Spy.

I've just finished marking summer exams and I'm currently writing reports but as soon as I've got those finished then I'll have more time to devote to my reading. I've read quite a few long books so far so I might need to read a few shorter ones to up my speed.

I've just had a look through the old thread so that I could list out all the books I've read so far, and realised my numbering went wrong a while back. I'm actually on Book 53 at the moment, not Book 48

Thanks for starting the new thread. This challenge is keeping me focused on my reading so I am making time to read. It's great to see what everyone else is readinga nd I have certainly added to my To Read list.

29 Before I Met You by Lisa Jewell30 The Good Father by Noah Hawley31 Lady of Hay by Barbara Erskine

I'm in a complete Barbara Erskine time travel mood now so 32 will be Time's Legacy I think.

1. President Down by Terence Strong2. The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes3. The Gate House by Nelson DeMille4. Doomsday Prophecy by Scott Mariani5. Brute Force by Andy McNab6. The Race by Richard North Patterson7. Italian Shoes by Henning Mankell8. Assegai by Wilbur Smith9. How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran10. Room by Emma Donoghue11. Heartstone by CJ Sansom12. The Doomsday Key by James Rollins13. Sanctus by Simon Toyne14. True Blue by David Baldacci15. Winter in Madrid by CJ Sansom16. The Last Camel Died At Noon by Elizabeth Peters

And I have just started Papillon by Henri Charriere. This is a true story of a prisoner making repeated escapes from a penal colony in French Guiana. So far, it's very good, but long, so I must get cracking with it!!

21. The BFG - Roald Dahl22. Alone In Berlin - Hans Fallada23. The People Of The Abyss - Jack London24. London Under - Peter Ackroyd25. The Talisman - Stephen King & Peter Straub26. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom27. The Firework-Maker's Daughter - Philip Pullman28. Black House - Stephen King & Peter Straub29. The Last Expedition - Robert Scott30. Beowulf - Seamus Heaney translation. Found this much more readable than I thought I would, and you can really see its influence on the likes of Tolkien, GRRM etc.